The path to obscuring “The Path to 9/11”

In case you haven’t kept up with all the dust up over the ABC mini-series “The Path to 9/11,” the movie shown tonight (Sunday) which dramatizes intelligence and operational failures of the Clinton and Bush administrations, I’ll give you a quick update.

The Big Brother aspect of that just boggles my mind. I could understand their wanting ABC to edit parts they felt were totally inaccurate (which did happen, although it didn’t seem to change the story much), but to pull the whole thing?? Kudos to ABC for not giving into such bullying tactics. Remember this isn’t a grassroots effort of “the people” here. These were leading Democratic Senators (!!) who had the power to revoke a license and pretty much threatened to do it! Good grief!

Even after ABC relented and made the changes to “The Path to 9/11” Clinton lawyers sent a second letter to ABC requesting that the series be canceled.

As it became clear that ABC was not going to pull the series, the Democratic Underground got busy with a “google bomb.”

Honestly, I thought the movie was a bit disjointed and unless you really had followed along with these events, you might get confused. Did it make the Clinton administration look bad? All I know is that it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know. We missed Bin Laden many times and in hindsight that looks truly awful. Tommorrow night should be President Bush’s turn to be in the spotlight leading up to 9/11. Everyone who has viewed this already has said that it doesn’t paint Bush in a favorable light either. So one has to wonder why Clinton made such a big deal out of this, even making a phone call to ABC himself.